New Horizons in Generative AI: Agenda
October 24, 2023
8:30a.m. - 9:00a.m. PDT
Check-In Open
Breakfast available
9:00a.m. - 9:10a.m. PDT
Welcome and Introduction
Speakers
Associate Professor of Applied Physics, and by courtesy, of Neurobiology, of Electrical Engineering, and of Computer Science, Stanford University; Faculty Associate Director, Stanford HAI
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University; Director, Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models; Faculty Affiliate, Stanford HAI
9:10a.m. - 9:50a.m. PDT
Opening Keynote
Speakers
Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
9:50a.m. - 11:20a.m. PDT
Session 1: Sciences
Providing new windows into the natural world to enhance human understanding.
Speakers
Computer scientist focused on language models for biology
PhD Candidate, EECS, MIT
Assistant Professor of Earth System Science and, by courtesy, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University
Moderators
Surya Ganguli
11:20a.m. - 11:35a.m. PDT
Break
15-minute break
11:35a.m. - 1:05p.m. PDT
Session 2: Creativity
Challenging, redefining, and expanding notions of human creativity.
Speakers
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University; Part-time Research Scientist, Google Magenta
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley; Director, Kanazawa AI Research (KAIR); Advisory Board: Wonder Dynamics and Luma AI
Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Doctoral Candidate in Machine Learning, University of Oxford; Research Scientist Intern, Google DeepMind
Moderators
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University
1:05p.m. - 2:05p.m. PDT
Lunch
1 hour lunch break
2:15p.m. - 2:45p.m. PDT
Music & AI: What Do We (Really) Want?
Speakers
Associate Professor Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) Department of Music and, by courtesy, of Computer Science, Stanford University
2:45p.m. - 4:15p.m. PDT
Session 3: Society
Envisioning a flourishing pluralistic society of humans and AI agents.
Speakers
Director, Stanford Digital Economy Lab; Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI; Ralph Landau Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Prime Unifying Scientist, Microsoft
Ph.D. Candidate of Computer Science, Stanford University
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Moderators
Society Lead, Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models; Ph.D. Candidate of Computer Science, Stanford University
4:15p.m. - 4:30p.m. PDT
Break
15-minute break
4:30p.m. - 5:10p.m. PDT
Keynote | Machine Learning for Translatable Drug Discovery
Speakers
CEO and Founder, insitro; Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
5:10p.m. - 5:15p.m. PDT
Closing Remarks
Speakers
Surya Ganguli
Percy Liang
5:15p.m. - 6:45p.m. PDT
Networking Reception
Reception in the Gates Computer Science Building Courtyard.